Goat Cheese with Caramelized Onions and Figs
This delicious goat cheese appetizer can be made ahead and heated at serving time. It's great for taking to parties. It is one of my most requested recipes.
Servings: 8
Note: If you are cooking for a particular style of eating, please check all of your ingredients carefully.
Ingredients
- 8-10 ounce log of goat cheese
- 2 large sweet onions
- 6 dried figs
- fresh ground pepper
- 1 1/2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme
- assorted crackers
Instructions
Prepare Onions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees. Peel onions, cut into quarters and slice.
- Cook onions over medium high heat until they start to brown. Continue to cook over medium heat until softened, sort of like al dente for pasta.
Assemble Dish
- Place onions around the outside of baking dish.
- Cut goat cheese into thick slices and arrange goat cheese in center of dish. Arrange figs over onions.
- Add a sprinkle of pepper by grinding pepper over the dish. Sprinkle with thyme.
Bake and Broil Dish
- Bake for 12-15 minutes, until hot.
- Optional: Place under broiler for a few minutes. Keep a close eye on it, and remove just as the cheese starts to brown. It's better to remove from the broiler early rather than late. Serve with crackers.
Notes
If you are lucky enough to have fresh figs, use them in place of the dried figs. If using fresh figs, use a few more of them and cut them in halves rather than quarters.
For dried figs, I have used black mission figs.
This dish can be assembled ahead of time and refrigerated to be heated at serving time. It’s great to bring to parties if the host has the oven available for you to heat the dish.
The broiling is optional. When I take this dish to a party, I generally skip the broiling part to keep things easy and avoid creating too much commotion in the kitchen.
In addition to crackers, this recipe is good served on rye bread or rye toast.
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